Sunghee Kim is a professional pianist and accompanist. She received the artistic education diploma in piano under Ilja Scheps at the Aachen campus of the Köln Conservatory of Music, and has performed in numerous recitals in Korea, Spain, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. She coached vocal as well as wind and string instruments as a staff accompanist. After completing her education in Germany, Kim was a member of the Piano Research Association in Korea, frequently performing as a recitalist throughout the country.

She was awarded New Artist of the Year at the 2006 Korea Piano Society Competition, and also performed a Liszt piano concerto with the Daegu Symphony Orchestra. Before coming to the United States, Kim taught at the Kyungpook National University and Daegu National University of Education.

Sunghee currently resides in Corvallis, where she is an active soloist and chamber musician. She has been featured on OSU’s Music à la Carte series in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, and performed in the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival each of those years. In 2016 she performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Salem Philharmonia Orchestra. She joins them in a Mozart concerto in October 2017.